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Within the nursing profession, it has been argued that care is a vague, affective and a poorly defined concept, whose content has become synonymous to an emotional practice at the expense of knowledge and skills. In this article we will analyze and discus what is meant by care and whether there is evidence to suggest that care is a vague, affective and poorly defined concept. A text analysis based on deconstructive criticism, with a systematic step by step approach of the Kari Martinsen`s philosophy of caring, indicates that an emotional interpretation of the content is legitimate on the basis of a philosophical and emotional language. In addition, the ideological constraints interfere with the actual message. By eliminating such elements, the analysis indicates that care, however, is a natural human behavior that mainly means to help a fellow human being.

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